Art of Sandow BirkArt of Don HataArt of Yvonne McGrathArt of Debbie Green

ESSAYS Impressions from the Voter Registration Battle Front 1965by Debbie Green   Timeby Terrance Steele

ESSAYS Volume 1, Fall 2025 Michael Blaha“The Edinburgh Fringe Festival” Suzanne LummisThe Poem Noir: Too Dark to be Depressed

ART Don Hata

INTERVIEWS Volume 2 Summer/Fall 2026     Father Gregory BoyleForgive Everyone EverythingRichard L. HasenA Real Right to Vote Don HataArresting Immigrants and U.S. Citizens Jason AlfonsoEmergence from Gangs Mike PrysnerConscientious Objectors in the Military  

Interviews Volume 1 Fall 2025   Collin DavisPrisoner at Men’s Colony at San Luis Obispo Dr. Harry EdwardsAuthor of The Revolt of the Black Athlete Dr. Gary Greenberg Author of The Secrets of Sand Melissa HippleMother of Collin Davis Ferris JabrAuthor of Becoming Earth:  How Our Planet Came to Life Jeff […]

POETRY Ron Koertge“The City”“Cincinnati, 1947”“Parkview1-9426”“The Sun is Worried” James Cagney“How to Operate Heavy Machinery”Click Here for this Month’s Free Poem “Between a Rock Wall and an Immigrant”“Interview with a Rose” Alexis Rhone Fancher“For the Sad Waitress at the Diner in Barstow”“Bambi Explains it All”“this small rain”June Fairchild isn’t dead — […]

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cover: oil on canvas by Jewel Okamura, “Venice Pier, Sunset” p.vi Photo of Ruby Bridges, 1960, U.S. Marshals Service photo p. 2: Watercolor by Don Hata, “Last in Line” (detail) 5: Father Boyle in his office, photo by Daniel Ritkes 8: Photo of Dolores Mission, by Google […]

Volume 2 Summer/Fall 2026CONTRIBUTORS   Jason Alfonso is the Service Operations Supervisor for Groman Mortuaries, Inc. He grew up in a broken single-parent home in Koreatown, Los Angeles. At the age of nine, he joined a predominantly Asian gang known as Jefrox abbreviated as JFX. After the brutal murder of […]